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“It’s interesting to think that with copyright law, as suggested in Creative License, being less than conducive to artists who use collage technique today, that Andy Warhol would have had as much success now.”
Try, for a moment, to imagine a world without J.R.R. Tolkien. There would be no Frodo, no Shire, no Gandalf. But what else would disappear without this author? By my thinking, if Tolkien goes, so goes Prachett, Pullman, and…Rowling. Sure there were other fantasy authors during Tolkien’s time (the Inklings wouldn’t have been much [...]
After months of empty promises and subtle allusion, we’ve finally done it. Here is Shaking Intensified: Best Prose 2007-2010. This anthology covers some of the best prose writing from our online-only years and marks our first venture into print. It also celebrates the end of an era, as we transition from Shaking [...]
The other day I was doing some research on the bankruptcy of Borders. Most of what I found was the same string of repeated facts: they had poor management, they couldn’t compete with Amazon, their music section was going under because everyone buys off itunes now – normal economic problems for a corporation. While [...]
Thomas Cobb discusses Hank Williams, Nabokov, and the near impossibility of redemption.
Among the ten recipients of the 2009 Whiting Writers’ Awards given annually by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation was poet Jericho Brown, who was featured in the Summer issue of shaking like a mountain. Commenting on this year’s group of three poets, four novelists and writers of short fiction writers, two nonfiction writers and a [...]
Dean Wareham details his life in the elastic time of late 80′s indie rock when opportunities to hear the music you might love came via live shows played in rooms only the cognoscenti knew of___ or on college radio…
MotesBooks has released the first volume in the Motif series of anthologies, each of which is focused on a particular motif or theme. Edited by Marianne Worthington, communication and journalism professor at University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, Ky., the first volume is entitled Motif: Writing by Ear. An Anthology of Writings about Music.
